Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17
NEWS ALL SORTS.

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| The ice palace at st. Paul is falling in
from the effects of spring weather.
Mineral oil exports for February last
amounted to $2,4OO,182, against $3,259,
! 46l in February, 1886.
"MarvelousIy extensive and rich gold
quartz VEINS" the dispatch says, have
! just been discovered in the Transvaal
| (Africa) gold-felds.
There is prospect that the Illinois
| legislature will adopt resolution to sub
NIT the question of prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
beverages to popular vote.
The value of cotton exports during
February past was S1S,744,24o, against
ST. ,201,681 in February, 1886. For the
six months ended Feb. %, 1877, the value
of cotton exports amounted to $159,3I1,-
1856, against $151, 1927 ,2O3 during the six
months ending Feb. 2S, 1886.
The WelIand canals will be opened May
for vessels drawing twelve feet.
The -four output at Minneapolis last
week was $1,000 barrels, against S4,O4O
barrels the previous week. The market
shows more strength, and better prices
are being obtained.
CHRISTINE NILSSON has been married to
Count Miranda, and will retire from the
lyric stage.
CAPTAIN JAMES B. EADs, the famous
civil engineer, died Tuesday at Mass au
the capital of the Bahama Islands,
The Minnesota legislature, in a sixty
days session, introduced seventeen hun
dred bills and passed enough of them to
appropriate nearly two millions of dollars
The president on Thursday appointed
Charlton N. Way, of Georgia, to be con
sui general of the United States at St.
Petersburg.
UNITED STATES r evenue Collector VIM
G. Thompson, of the second Iowa district
died Wednesday morning at Davenport,
of Bright's disease. He had suffered a
long illness.
Louis Reiviel, the would be assassin of
Beattie, surveyor of the port of New
York, he having attempted to shoot
Beattle, In the custom house, last Octo-
Der, has been sentenced to five years in
the state prison.
The admiralty has trustworthy infor-
nation that the draftings and papers con-
nected with the British navy designs
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which England charged had been secrred
by the United States government by IN
fair means, are in the possession of the
Russian government. q
A BROKEN wheel threw two passenger
coaches containing thirty passengers
from the track near Girard, d., Friday.
Two passengers were fatally, and five
Others, among them State Senator r. C.
Southwerth, of Litchfeld, ILL.,, were SER
iously injured.
The continued cruelties by the author
titles in Bulgaria will soon make condi-
ton of things which will enable Russia to
take possession Of the country. The
Cars government is better than none.
The firm of Armour & Co., have decid-
ed not to build the cotton seed oil mills
In the south as has been announced. tits
lntlmated that the firm has arranged with
cotton seed oil syndicate to furnish
them with oil at contract prices which
result was accomplished owing to the
threat to build opposition mills.
IT has been demonstrated that planti-
mum wire may be drawn SO fine as to be
presence upon perfectly white card can
be detected by the touch, and can be seen
by the aid Of small magnifying glass
when the card is held in such position
that the wire casts a shadow.
A CURIOUS geological phenomenon ex-
lists in the vicinity of Behring's strait
At Elephant Point, Kotzbue Sound,
ridge 2 miles wide and $50 fit. high seems
to be vast mass of ice, thinly covered
with clay and vegetable mold. In this
soil birches, alders end berry bearing
plants grow luxuriantly, with the stratum
of perpetual ice as the underlying rock
within less than foot from their roots.
IT is said very important new depart
ure has been made in the paper manufac-
ture, by the erection. of works in the
neighbOrhood of London for the utiiza
ton for that purpose stable manure ETC.
The results obtained in this process aresaid
to be so satisfactory that, after due pro-
vision has been made for the value of the
chemical products of the materials en-
ployed, the cost of producing the paper
next to nothing.
ONE of the largest seins in the world is
the enc in use near Gloucester Point. N.
j. 1t is a mile and a quarter long, and
each year One-tnird of it has to be renew
ed, the work being done in Baltimore. It
is used In catching shad, and at the pen
ing of each season thousands of people
gather to witness the haul. Old fisher
men believe that shad will be running
lively by the beginning of April They
declare that all the signs point to an
early spring. The first Delaware shad
was recently captured at Bayside, where
it sold for IS cents.
New YORK statement of the canal
business says: "Of 76,371.237 bushels of
grain received at this port last year, from
May to November inclusive, 1853 355
bushels were brought through the canals
During the same period for the past three
years the canals brought 11O.55O 45S bush
els, out of total of 2O6, SAC, 233 bushels.
While the decrease in the amount of
grain brought to the city by rail during
1886, under what was carried by the same
means in 1885, is 1862. 7SS bushels, and
by river and coastwise 1,725,617 bushels,
the total carried by canals during 1886
was 14,06S,9 $40 bushels in excess of the
freightage of the previous year"
WIRE rope nsed in coal mine near
Sharpsburg, Pa, is 1000 feet long. In
on oil H.